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Paul Kelly has recorded seventeen studio albums as well as several film soundtracks (Lantana and the Cannes 2006 highlight, Jindabyne) and live albums, in an influential career spanning more than thirty years. He was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame in 1997.
Songs From The South, a selection of his popular songs first assembled in 1997 and expanded to a double album in 2008,contains many of his songs now lodged deep in the Australian psyche.
He continues to cross musical boundaries. Recent albums include the bluegrass-inspired Foggy Highway, the wide ranging double set, Ways & Means and Stolen Apples. The Triple J tribute album Before Too Long, released earlier this year, featuring John Butler, Missy Higgins, Megan Washington, Paul Dempsey, Ozi Batla and many others is evidence of his influence on generations of musicians.
His first work of prose, a self described ‘mongrel memoir’, is out now on Penguin accompanied by a CD box set of live recordings.
The long-awaited memoir has its genesis in a series of concerts first staged in 2004. Over four nights Kelly performed one hundred of his songs in alphabetical order. From the stories he told in between songs grew How To Make Gravy – a memoir like no other.
How To Make Gravy’s four sections mirror the four nights of the A-Z shows. Each chapter starts with a song lyric followed by a story. Some stories tell Kelly's personal and family history, some take you on a road trip with the band, some form an idiosyncratic history of popular music, others offer insights into the songwriter's art – from the point of inspiration to writing, honing, collaborating, performing, recording and reworking.
A reflection on the big and little things in life, playful and honest, insightful and intimate, How To Make Gravy is also available with a companion CD box set entitled The A-Z Recordings that includes a 64-page booklet of photos.
